Star Trek 25th Anniversary Data East Pinball! Artwork, design video!

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back with another really cool pinball machine video for you this evening this is data East famous Star Trek pinball machine this was released for the 25th anniversary of Star Trek and it's pretty cool they made they have made a ton of Star Trek pinball machines Bally and and it's kind of interesting that all the companies have made it Bally made one and I believe 79 and then data East made this one in 91 and then Williams made it may have been Bally - you know Williams and Bally ruined by the same company but Williams made one in 93 ish i would guess 94 maybe which was a Star Trek The Next Generation and then Stern pinball has now made one a couple years ago that was based kind of one of the new movies so they have got their money's worth out of Star Trek and all four of them I played and I liked all four of them so so just a cool pinball theme this is the Daddy East one like I said they several companies have made one but this one was based on the or was meant to commemorate the 25th anniversary and it features the original cast so you've got Captain Kirk and everybody's favorite Spock it's got a neat neat look to it these data East games don't get a lot of love this one here is pretty respected but a lot of these data East games are just now kind of coming into their own people have they haven't been all that desirable for years but now people are starting to give them a second look and realizing that a lot of them are pretty pretty good games the artwork on the side is awesome obviously I'm not a big Trekkie so I don't know a lot about all of the little like the different versions of the enterprise and all that but I'm sure the people watching this video do or they wouldn't be watching the video the front it's in pretty good shape it's got a little bit of art it's been touched up but looks pretty good then this side of course is just a mirror of the other side now I believe again I'm not a Trekkie but I've seen all the movies and stuff I think that's a Romulan warbird am i right I don't know what this one is with the bird underneath it maybe I got him backwards maybe that's the Romulan warbird yeah maybe that's the Romulan warbird and that's the Klingon ship I don't know I might have to go back and touch up on my my Star Trek so it's a really cool look and the most stunning thing about it was this back glass looks fantastic look at that that's amazing and so it has this the reason that the middle looks so weird there if you haven't seen this game is because that's a it's one of those little I don't know what they call that but basically depending on their I guess it's not the angle because they move a piece in there there there's a little motor in there that moves a screen in front of that that makes them disappear so they actually transport up like they did on the show so you might get a more a pattern there because it's got these lines in front of it that blocks some of the art and so what it does is it moves the lines over the the art of the cast and they disappear live long and prosper you'll notice you you can hear all of the lights going off that's something that happens on a lot of these older games we tried recapping the soundboard and recapping the power supply and it still did it so I don't know if there's any way to get rid of that or not but it bothers some people but other people it's not really that big of a deal so the art on the play field is pretty good it's all hand-drawn you've got these cool classy plastic cutouts of some of the Star Trek ladies on the above the flippers and then you've got I guess that's dock I don't know the deal with the fencing just Captain Kirk there's Spock and is that lieutenant la hora is that how you say her name and then that's uh is it check off or something like that can't remember so you've got Spock over here doing this thing I don't know who that guy is you get Kirk over here shooting somebody you've got is that Conn I believe am I right about that the famous con so anyway and then you got the crystals up here the delay theum crystals that's a weird to track sometimes only half of them flash and then sometimes all of them flash they all work see whatever then you've got a couple pop bumpers up here and you've got these guys with the brains up here at the top that are your roll overs you've got a green lady and another guy I'm sure all this is like obvious to all of the Star Trek people but I haven't seen most of the episodes laxman to boldly go where no man has gone before to explore strange new worlds to seek out new life and new civilizations these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise its five-year mission and then you get four drop targets on the left and four drop targets on the right and you've got this big hole right in the middle now back then they did a lot more in the games they had a lot more stuff in them then then you will find on a typical newer game that's out now it kind of went to a high point and data East kind of road that Daddy he's poured all kinds of stuff into their games so you've got eight drop targets you'd be hard-pressed to find a new game now that they put a drop targets on because that's a lot of extra machinery and it rises up the the Bill of Materials and then you've got a hole right here you can shoot into because there's a subway so there's a ramp a subway a plastic subway underneath the machine where if the ball goes down in that hole it rolls down to here etc and then the most amazing thing about this particular play field is this huge dam wrap they put on it I've never seen one quite this big the one on we had a motor dome that has a huge ramp on it but this one here takes the cake it's all one piece and I don't know how they made it you'd think that they'd messed that up trying to make one that big but you have a ramp over here and it's kind of like a half ramp and then it stops so the piece starts right here goes behind the back box and then over here it starts down here yeah it starts down here goes up and behind the back box it's all one piece comes out here splits into all one piece comes all the way down the left side and then over here comes all the way down the right side and that's all one piece one big huge ramp which is kind of easy to take off whenever we were taking the playfield apart and working on everything without all man it's gonna be a pain but it's not that hard to take off really just one big form piece now I don't you can't get a replacement one of those but I would imagine that thing would have to be three or four hundred dollars if they made a replacement just because of its size and the complexity of trying to get it perfect and then on top of that they put these little rope lights that go along the ramp on it and so they just kind of poured all kinds of stuff in this one they're really decked it all out as they should have for a great theme like Star Trek you know you might as well do it all the way if you're gonna do it so let's read over the instructions a little bit we'll see how to play this thing says hold either flipper for an instant info so on the usually that means on the back box that will tell you the like who who's got the high score and all that stuff I love the little dot matrix animations on this one are really cool shields down it even the data east games featuring the voices of Scottie and McCoy on the data east ones they would even show animations for some of their other upcoming games so on this one it shows Hook and tries to get you excited for hook that would be coming out soon after this one or perhaps it came out just before this one I'm not sure and then another thing of course is if you'll notice the display is half size of most of the the modern DMD games which is pretty interesting they made good use of it them problem is if you if you need a replacement one of those is really expensive we'll see ya check this part out Star Trek 25th anniversary the leader in pinball design and innovation alright okay so they have a little diagram here well they actually show you the play field so you can figure out everything the skill-shot shoot the warships located in the display with flashing launch button aim it ships center for maximum points so basically whenever you go to start the game it says fire photon torpedo and on the back glass I mean on the on the DMD it will show a a enemy ship flying by with its crosshairs and you try to shoot it as a flashbang by honey that's your skill shot winners don't use drugs people all right Laser kick shoot the top right shoot right top lane to light the laser kick we light laser kids so if you make that shot it launched it lights your laser kick over here which will save your ball if you lose it out to the left multiplier top three lanes advanced the multiplier sets the top three rollovers out up there with the three brainy looking guys collect multi ball collect crystals to open the transporter shoot the ball into the transporter to beam and transport the crew Auto three ball begins with beaming effects so all around the play field you have these billet theam crystals as they're called laying all over the place and they're all numbered so three is that target right there four is a target in the middle five is that target right there eight is if you get all four of those drop targets down seven is if you get all four of those drop targets down six is the left in lane nine is the right in line two is the right ramp and one is the left limb that's how you get all of them out once you get all of them it tells you to hit the center target again and so if you hit that Center target it raises the transporter now the transporter is this ramp so this ramp can actually raise up and then you can shoot under so if you shoot under it it locks the ball alright actually I think it goes into the subway if you shoot it if you shoot hundred it goes into the subway which goes on all the way underneath the play field down all the way under the play field down to here and ends up over here but whenever it does that it beams up the crew and on the DMV it says something about transport and it's got arrows pointing up and if you look at the back glass the crew fades away and then disappears like they do on the show pretty incredible and then it starts multi-ball now after it starts multi-ball the crews gone the whole time and there's just all kinds of stuff going on the music's pumping everything's great and then whenever you lose all of the balls except for your last one you know to get out of multi ball they beam back in man they just don't do really cool stuff like that on pinball machines anymore I guess some of them do not many so that's that's one of the coolest tricks on a machine really if you think about it okay jackpot in multi ball shoot the moving primary crystal to open transporter chute transporter to collect 10 15 20 25 50 and 100 million jackpots so in multi ball you hit the swinging oh by the way that target moves back and forth the whole time in multi ball you hit the swinging target and it opens up the transporter again and then if you make that shot you get various bonuses going up to 100 million dollars one hundred million points primary crystal one shot at the moving primary crystal advances the phasers when yellow and opens transporter for multi ball and jackpot when green so there you get a million plus I didn't know about this one shoot left and right ramps or primary crystal to advance phasers when complete shoot primary crystal for million plus alright ice planet so these are the phasers I believe here the red and green in the middle ice planet when lit complete remaining drop targets for extra ball or ten million points so here's the ice planet extra ball here's ice planet 10 million points